Software Development Engineer 3

Role: Software Development Engineer 3 (Backend)

Function: Backend Engineering / Software Development

Location: Bengaluru, India

Type: Full-time

Industry: Health-tech, Pharmaceuticals, E-commerce

About Company

The company is a Series A online pharmacy based in Bengaluru, India. It delivers genuine, quality-checked medicines straight to customers doorsteps across India.

By sourcing directly from manufacturers and offering transparent substitute-brand options, the company helps users save up to 60% on medication costs. Founded in 2023 and backed by $6.8M in funding, the company has a team of 60+ people.

It serves chronic-care patients and consumers seeking affordable alternatives to branded medicines.

Position Overview

The company is looking for a veteran backend engineer who has operated at scale in top-tier product companies and is ready to take on a high-stakes technical leadership role. As SDE-3, you will serve as the primary guardian of engineering quality — owning architectural integrity, mentoring engineers, and driving the platform to handle 10x traffic growth.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead backend evolution to handle 10x traffic growth, focusing on distributed systems, data consistency, and low-latency response times

• Author and lead cross-functional Technical Design Documents for major product milestones and architectural decisions

• Review Technical Specs authored by SDE-1s and SDE-2s, providing critical feedback to ensure system integrity and alignment

• Own platform uptime by implementing advanced monitoring, automated failovers, and robust disaster recovery strategies

• Actively coach and mentor SDE-1s and SDE-2s, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership

• Build and optimize CI/CD deployment pipelines to improve release velocity and reliability

• Ensure backend architecture meets industry standards for data security, privacy, and compliance

Must Have Criteria

• 5–7 years of backend engineering experience at high-growth product companies (Tier-1 startups or Big Tech)

• Deep hands-on experience with PostgreSQL — query optimization, schema design, and managing high-throughput workloads

• Production experience with Redis for caching and SQS or RabbitMQ for async message processing

• Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes (K8s), and Docker in a production environment

• Experience designing and building distributed systems from scratch and presenting architectural decisions to senior stakeholders

• Experience setting up observability frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or New Relic

• Prior experience leading a team of engineers or acting as a technical lead in the absence of an Engineering Manager

Nice to Have

• Experience setting up and managing large-scale data pipelines using ClickHouse or equivalent high-concurrency data stores

• 3+ years of hands-on production experience with NestJS and TypeScript for building scalable backend services

• Background in health-tech, e-commerce, or high-frequency consumer platforms

• Experience at a Series A–C startup where you helped scale systems from early-stage to production at significant load

• Contributions to open-source backend infrastructure projects

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation

• Meaningful ESOP allocation — real equity upside at an early but well-funded stage

• High-ownership role with direct impact on a platform serving users across India

• Opportunity to work closely with experienced founders in a fast-scaling, mission-driven health-tech startup

• Collaborative, low-bureaucracy engineering culture that values technical depth and speed